History Anime / MarvelAnime

In 2013, the film ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' was released to coincide with the release of ''Film/IronMan3''. The flick also featured several heroes from the film ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', such as ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow and ComicBook/NickFury. Another film, this time called ''Anime/AvengersConfidentialBlackWidowAndPunisher'', is being released in 2014 as a tie-in to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

In 2013, the film ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' was released to coincide with the release of ''Film/IronMan3''. The flick also featured several heroes from the film ''Film/TheAvengers'', such as ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow and ComicBook/NickFury. Another film, this time called ''Anime/AvengersConfidentialBlackWidowAndPunisher'', is being released in 2014 as a tie-in to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

* {{Expy}}: The OriginalCharacter Kikyo Mikage can be seen as one for {{Wolverine}} InUniverse; an [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrgogant]] {{Samurai}} Japanese mutant with a HealingFactor and [[WolverineClaws katana-like blades that he can extend from his palms]].
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* NamesToKnowInAnime: This will take a while...
** Creator/KeijiFujiwara as Tony Stark/Iron Man
** Creator/TakakoHonda as Dr. Chika Tanaka
** Creator/ShizukaIto as Nanami Öta
** Creator/HoukoKuwashima as Maria
** Creator/HiroakiHirata as Ho Yinsen/Iron Man Dio
** Creator/UnshoIshizuka as Minister of Defense Kuroda/Rasetsu
** Creator/RikiyaKoyama as Logan/Wolverine
** Creator/FumikoOrikasa as Mariko Yashida
** [[Creator/RomiPark Romi Paku]] as Yukio
** Creator/HidekatsuShibata as Shingen Yashida
** Creator/KazukiYao as Hideki Kuroyagi
** Creator/ShowHayami as Juo Kuroyagi
** Creator/MasakiTerasoma as Tesshin Asano
** Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo as Arkady Rossovich/Omega Red
** Creator/HiroshiTsuchida as Takagi
** Creator/IemasaKayumi as Koh
** Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa as Scott Summers/Cyclops
** Creator/AyaHisakawa as Ororo Munroe/Storm
** Creator/HideyukiTanaka as Hank [=McCoy=]/Beast
** Creator/YukariTamura as Hisako Ichiki/Armor
** Creator/YoshikoSakakibara as Yui Sasaki
** Creator/WataruTakagi as Todd
** Creator/YuuichiNakamura as Marsh
** Creator/AkioOhtsuka as Blade
** Creator/MaayaSakamoto as Makoto
*** English Dub:
** Creator/StephanieSheh as Hisako Ichiki/Armor
** Creator/SteveBlum as Wolverine
** Creator/LauraBailey as Dr. Chika Tanaka
** Creator/TravisWillingham as Ramon Zero/Captain Nagato Sakurai, and Mastermind
** Creator/SteveStaley as Takeo Sasaki
** Creator/KyleHebert as Ho Yin Sen/ Iron Man Dio.
* {{Immortal Hero}}/{{Invincible Hero}}: Wolverine in his series gets the crap beat out of him and normally lethal injuries numerous times nearly every episode by more skilled, powerful, or numerous enemies. Thanks to his healing factor he always lasts long enough to squeak out a win. By the end, the villains are trying to figure out how to kill him since he keeps getting up no matter how badly they wound him.

In 2013, the film ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' was released to coincide with the release of ''Film/IronMan3''. The flick also featured several heroes from the film ''Film/TheAvengers'', such as {{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow and ComicBook/NickFury. Another film, this time called ''Anime/AvengersConfidentialBlackWidowAndPunisher'', is being released in 2014 as a tie-in to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

In 2013, the film ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' was released to coincide with the release of ''Film/IronMan3''. The flick also featured several heroes from the film ''Film/TheAvengers'', such as {{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow and NickFury. Another film, this time called ''Anime/AvengersConfidentialBlackWidowAndPunisher'', is being released in 2014 as a tie-in to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

** MasakiTerasoma as Tesshin Asano

** HiroshiTsuchida as Takagi

** HidekatsuShibata as Shingen Yashida

** IemasaKayumi as Koh

* DuelingShows: The ''Blade'' anime premiered in the same month as ''[[BloodTheLastVampire Blood-C]]'', another show involving a vampire hunter.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The English dub will reunite [[{{Series/Heroes}} Nathan and Peter Petrelli]] as Iron Man and Wolverine respectively.
** Also, Takeo and Hisako act [[{{Manga/Naruto}} Neji and Hinata, and because Naruto is not around, Hisako softens Takeo up on her own]].

Marvel Anime (2010-2011) is a four-series anthology co-produced between MarvelComics and Studio Creator/{{Madhouse}}, first announced at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. Featuring Anime/IronMan, Anime/{{Wolverine}}, the Anime/{{X-Men}} and Anime/{{Blade}} as the leads of their respective shows, each of their stories involve travelling to Japan either to simply save the day, [[ItsPersonal motivated by revenge in the case of Wolverine]], to save a kidnapped member of the X-Men, or to slay a few vampires hiding there. Supervised by WarrenEllis (with the exception of ''Blade''), the anthology is said to create an entire parallel universe for Marvel, according to representatives of the company.

* CompositeCharacter: Takeo is [[spoiler: Xavier's son Legion and Moira [=MacTaggert=]'s son Proteus rolled into one. A similar combination of the two characters previously appeared in [[Comicbook/UltimateXMen Ultimate X-Men]] as the UltimateMarvel version of Proteus]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Yui Sasaki, Professor X's old lover]] in the ''Anime/{{X-Men}}'' anime; because [[spoiler: her]] son is a mutant, [[spoiler: she]] kept him isolated from society all his life and is dedicated to creating a retro-virus that attacks and deletes the mutant gene, forcing all mutants to be rendered genetically human again whether they want to or not. To this end, [[spoiler: she]] employs the U-Men to abduct and murder innocent mutants to supply [[spoiler: her]] with a constant supply of mutant tissues to culture her virus in/from. Oh, and the end result of [[spoiler: her]] virus is that it supercharges the mutant's X-gene, resulting in [[BodyHorror grotesque mutations]] that ultimately kill them off in a ghastly way.

See also: ''Anime/MarvelDiscWarsTheAvengers'', another Marvel-themed anime collaboration, though this time done with ToeiAnimation.

* RaceLift: Yui Sasaki from ''X-Men'' is a Japanese version of Moira [=MacTaggert=], Xavier's former love-interest from the comics. Likewise, her son Takeo is [[spoiler: a Japanese version of Moira', Proteus]].
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: Xavier's son, the ultimate source of conflict in the X-Men anime]].

* TwelveEpisodeAnime: all of them.

* {{ImmortalHero}}/{{InvincibleHero}}: Wolverine in his series gets the crap beat out of him and normally lethal injuries numerous times nearly every episode by more skilled, powerful, or numerous enemies. Thanks to his healing factor he always lasts long enough to squeak out a win. By the end, the villains are trying to figure out how to kill him since he keeps getting up no matter how badly they wound him.

** RyuzaburoOhtomo as Arkady Rossovich/Omega Red

** TakakoHonda as Dr. Chika Tanaka

** HiroakiHirata as Ho Yinsen/Iron Man Dio

** RikiyaKoyama as Logan/Wolverine

** YukariTamura as Hisako Ichiki/Armor

** HoukoKuwashima as Maria

** ShowHayami as Juo Kuroyagi

** YoshikoSakakibara as Yui Sasaki

** UnshoIshizuka as Minister of Defense Kuroda/Rasetsu

** FumikoOrikasa as Mariko Yashida

In 2013, the film ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' was released to coincide with the release of ''Film/IronMan3''. The flick also featured several heroes from the film ''Film/TheAvengers'', such as {{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow and NickFury. Another film, this time called ''Anime/AvengersConfidentialBlackWidowAndPunisher'' is being released in 2014 as a tie-in to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

In 2013, the film ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' was released to coincide with the release of ''Film/IronMan3''. The flick also featured several heroes from the film ''Film/TheAvengers'', such as {{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow and NickFury.

** ShizukaIto as Nanami Öta

** YuuichiNakamura as Marsh

** KeijiFujiwara as Tony Stark/Iron Man

** AkioOhtsuka as Blade
** MaayaSakamoto as Makoto

** StephanieSheh as Hisako Ichiki/Armor
** SteveBlum as Wolverine
** LauraBailey as Dr. Chika Tanaka
** TravisWillingham as Ramon Zero/Captain Nagato Sakurai, and Mastermind
** SteveStaley as Takeo Sasaki
** KyleHebert as Ho Yin Sen/ Iron Man Dio.

** KazukiYao as Hideki Kuroyagi

** ToshiyukiMorikawa as Scott Summers/Cyclops

** HideyukiTanaka as Hank [=McCoy=]/Beast

** {{Iron Man Rise of Technovore}} features an extended cameo from the {{Punisher}}.

In 2013, the film ''IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' was released to coincide with the release of ''Film/IronMan3''. The flick also featured several heroes from the film ''Film/TheAvengers'', such as {{Hawkeye}}, Comicbook/BlackWidow and NickFury.